AQUAfin, Jacksonville’s premiere swim school led by two-time Olympian Nimrod Shapira Bar-Or, announces the opening of a new location in Fleming Island in Coming 2024. With a minimum of 10 drownings occurring in the U.S. each day, this facility will not only bring more than 30 jobs to the community but will also provide a family-friendly environment to teach countless children how to be safer around the water. The Fleming Island location will be the 6th brick-and-mortar location AQUAfin has opened since coming to NE Florida.
The new location is the biggest swim school AQUAfin has built to date, with a 12,000 square feet building. Renovations and constructions for the new location have started this week and will be done by the end of 2023. The state-of-the-art facility will have multiple heated indoor pools and a high-quality purification system to provide year-round lessons, seven days a week, rain or shine. Lessons are progress-based starting with a 1-instructor-to-4-student ratio as young as two months old, with parent and tot classes (1:8).